WASHINGTON, D.C. - In some ways, President Donald Trump has brought Tammy Kennedy and her daughter, Sue Ann, together on politics.

They don't agree on every issue— Tammy supports abortion rights, for example, while Sue Ann opposes them. Even so, the two agree on most issues and disapprove of the way Trump is doing his job.

"I think we've talked about him in terms of immigration," said Tammy, 51, of Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration that has resulted in the separation of some parents and children at the borders. "I can't imagine my child being ripped away from me."

"We do agree on his performance," Sue Ann, 18, said.

They're part of a majority of American young people and their parents who disapprove of the job the president is doing, a poll shows. The survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV found that 57 percent of parents and 73 percent of young people ages 15 to 26 disapprove of the president's performance.

The common ground doesn't end there. The generations also agree that politics have become dysfunctional, and both say they're dissatisfied with the two-party system.

On issues broadly, a 55 percent majority of young people and their parents say they usually see eye to eye, and 31 percent say they debate things diplomatically. Just 9 percent say they avoid talking politics, and only 5 percent say their debates turn into "World War III."

And most say they agree with each other on a wide variety of individual issues, including feelings on the economy, health care, immigration, racism and abortion.

Still, hotheadedness abounds over politics, as anyone who has access to the internet knows. The survey showed that online, especially, politics seeps into interactions with extended family members. Twenty percent of young people and their parents say they have done the virtual equivalent of uninviting a family member — by blocking them or unfriending them — because of a disagreement over politics. An equal percentage of both generations say they have been blocked or unfriended.

Mackenzi Curtis, 22, said she stopped following one older family member, who's in his 60s, on Facebook over his posts about the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Several students became gun control advocates after a gunman killed 17 people on Feb. 14.

"I was thinking they're pretty much bullying a teenager that's been through a traumatic experience," Curtis, a mother of two in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said. "I think it has a lot to do with the difference in generations."

Eleven percent of respondents say they have had a holiday gathering ruined over politics, while about an equal percentage say they've decided not to attend a family event for the same reason. Seventeen percent say political disagreements inspired a relative to skip a family event.

The two generations are equally likely to engage on social media on the Nov. 6 elections, the study found. A quarter of parents and young people say they'll post or comment on the midterms, and similar percentages say they share memes about the races. That's a key data point for the campaigns trying to rev up and drive voters to the polls.

By any measure, Trump revolutionized Twitter as a political instrument before his 2016 upset over Democrat Hillary Clinton and during his presidency. Ahead of the 2018 midterms, both parties are leveraging the power of social media, engagement and relationships as Republicans defend their congressional majorities and Democrats try to topple them.

Among parents and young people who say they aren't of the same mind, young people say they tend to disagree with their parents most about racism, while their parents say the largest area of disagreement is gun control. Both generations tend to point to Trump and LGBT rights as sources of contention.

The generations say it can be hard to sway the other generation when differences exist, but not necessarily impossible.

Few young people and parents — only 11 percent overall — say they are always able to persuade each other to change his or her views, but another 53 percent say they can sometimes do it. Just 6 percent say they can always be persuaded, but 44 percent say they sometimes can be.

Larry Kapenstein, a 64-year-old retired postal worker in Middletown, Pennsylvania, said Trump most recently displeased his family by disinviting the Philadelphia Eagles — this year's Super Bowl champions — to the White House. But while they agree on Trump, Kapenstein said one of his children can be hard to convince on taxes. He's coming to terms with where chunks of his paycheck go. And that can lead to the question of who's to blame for that.

Hint: Voters and the politicians they elect.

"He just doesn't understand why we have to pay taxes," Kapenstein said. "He's just getting into the working world, but he just doesn't get it."

Silius P. The point you make concerning tribalism is a very good one and one that I agree with completely. Especially as it (tribalism) relates to today’s politics in our country. The impact (negative for the most part) will probably be felt far into the future and unfortunately has not yet even reached its zenith. It has been building for several decades now and rapidly accelerated during the run-up to the election of 2016 and even more so as a result of the chaos created by the present administration after President Trump took office. Restoration of the American people’s confidence in our election process and in the institutions that are vital to the proper functioning of our system of government, will be a long time coming. Not to mention the rebuilding of relationships with our allies. To accurately assess the impact that such phenomena as hive mentality, groupthink, or even deindividuation may have had in bringing about the situation that we are now facing, is so far above my pay grade that I wouldn’t even hazard a guess……….As to how the human brain is able (if indeed it actually does have the capability at this point) to function in such a way as to draw accurate conclusions, to consistently form unbiased, logical and reasonable opinions, establish religious and moral beliefs that are based on fact and reality, recognize and acknowledge truth, etc, etc, etc seems to be questions that have yet to be answered. However, there appears to be a rather significant amount of research being conducted by some folks in the cognitive science field that might provide some answers in the near future….BTW, I believe that you might find “The Knowledge Illusion” to be interesting.

I am always absolutely baffled that people put stock in any of these so called polls. This is one of the greatest tools that the liberal press has. When a statement is begun with the words "polls show" any statement no matter how ridiculous or even an absolute lie will be believed by so many people. Some questions to ask. Where were the polls taken? How many people were polled? How many people in this area were polled? It is interesting to note how many polls showed that Donald Trump didn't have a chance to be president. Our liberal press, entertainers, and late night talk show hosts are never going to give Trump credit for anything. People need to use their heads and look around. The stock market has done done better under Trump that it did under Obama's last term. The trade tariffs that Trump is doing should have be done thirty years ago. There is no trade war, we have been soundly defeated for some time. And as for the illegal aliens issue, Trump is merely enforcing the laws that we already have. But polls will never give information like this.

I’ll bet the Native Americans would disagree with you. I’ll also bet the African Americans (when they were simply called slaves) would disagree with you. I bet the Chinese immigrants who died working on our railroads for pittance, would disagree with you. I’ll bet all the women that were denied the right to vote would disagree with you. I’ll bet the Japanese Americans locked in real internment camps in WWII would disagree with you. This country has never been more welcoming than it is now. All you have to do is come to America (legally) and you will be welcomed. Every country in the world locks up people that commit crimes. Illegal aliens are, by default, illegal.

@WJ. I don'think that humans function as a hive mind but sociologists and anthropologists have observed that humans survive and draw their views and moral stances mainly through tribalism. We are pack animals and often cluster by similar traits, religions, viewpoints, who is the strongest, etc. and tend to be wary of any that are different from the majority of the "tribe." Overcoming that tendency and welcoming all used to be one of the things that defined this nation. Tariffs, walls, the rise in hate speech, the coldness toward allies while befriending murderous dictators, and kids being held in Internment camps away from parents with no legal recourse would suggest a much different path has been embarked upon by the nation.

Daniel: there are jobs out there for every millennial. Every one of them. There is housing available at just about any price range. There is a tremendous amount of education assistance available. Much of it free. Other than a few actual disadvantaged people out there, anyone could afford housing in America. Most people that “can’t” really just “won’t”.

Romans 12:6-8 King James Version (KJV)
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
King James Version (KJV)

In “The Knowledge Illusion”, the cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach make a pretty good argument that few if any of us actually “think for ourselves” to the degree that we might be convinced that we do. That our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. So, seems to me, we might be wise to take the views of the person who claims to have all the answers with a healthy dose of skepticism. Just in case she/he may have inadvertently overlooked some pretty significant questions.

I was a "child of the 60s", a hippie to be exact. We spoke out for change, for free speech, for compassion, for a "live and let live" world where we were all able to pursue our "happiness". If we had any idea that the movements we started out based on love for our fellow man and for life in general would some day become what it has become now; blind obedience to a self-serving ideology that takes from the poor to give to the rich (then lies about it), that calls difference of opinion "hate" and slams labels likes racist-homophobic-sexist-etc on anybody and everybody who thinks different then you do (then lies about that too), and has become so willing to give away the freedom everything our "love ins" were based on, we would have all gone skinny dipping into the ocean and never came back to shore. Isn't it amazing how all the polls that produce results not in line with this type of thinking never seem to make it into AP's market, not a word about them, but something like this is overly written with personal quips and offer very little (almost none at all) of the actual scientific data it was based on? Saw a poll the other day that put the percentage of people who would prefer for the government to take care of everything at around 67% now. Have we actually raised that many people who can't think for themselves? After reading a few of the posts on here, yep, guess we have.

Venezuela is more Progressively Socialist than Denmark. Isn't that more to your everybody equal philosophy results. Sorry your generation has not been able to achieve. Never leaving the nipple and then blaming the nipple is definitely a depressing scenario. Blaming others for your life's failures instead of adapting, overcoming, succeeding financially must be terribly miserable. To forever remain in our basement, you're killing' us. You're inalienable rights in America are being wasted commiserating in your generations safe spaces and loitering in your generations cry rooms. Grow up, grow a set and mature you'll be much happier than trying to con the successful American into supporting you. We're as tired of witnessing your needy dependence on government to survive in the real world as you are of living it. Americans are meant to be better than your generations parasitical government dependence. Our voting is protection against your desire to bankrupt us as well. Our voting is our tough love attempt to finish what your parents failed to accomplish. A successful adult society is proud of. Another American Success Story that millions of others seem to be able to enjoy except those that have been crippled by their perceived entitlement to others abilities, assets, sweat equities because they're.... Why is it again, that you're entitled to not be the needy failures you've chosen to be. Why is it again, that we are suppose to bare the nipple for you to suck because you choose to not succeed.

They’re living with their parents because they cannot afford their own place. Unregulated capitalism has failed them like it failed the Greatest Generation during the 1930s. Denmark does just fine with its system. The best thing we can do in the fall is vote for people 45 and younger and a lot more women.too. Also I have never seen a conservative take personal responsibility for anything. When are they going to take personal responsibility for Iraq.

Why do so many Millennials still need to have their parents support them. Why do so many dwell in their childhood bedrooms, their parents basements and detached garages. Why have they not advantaged the American Capitalist System afforded them as their parents did. Why is their failure their parents fault when they can't stand on their own as individuals. Why do colleges provide safe spaces, cry rooms for their fragile students. None of these profess individual responsibility for achievements but, rather a dependent need fostered by an entitlement rather than an achievment mentality. In the real world everyone doesn't get a trophy. Failures are fostered by the Entitlement Mentality fed to generations that need to grow up. Losers can't continue to be coddled by a Socialist government's cradle to grave promises. The Socialism we've tried has made us weaker. American Capitalism, personal responsibility finally becoming acceptable and preferred is MAGA. The Left has left the Left stranded with promises that result in nothing to show, nowhere to turn when they ran out of other peoples money and votes. Blame someone, anyone else but yourself if you're content to sit on or below the bottom rungs of opportunity. To many are still comfortable there, commiserating in failure of their potential.

Daniel B has it. Boomers are the greediest, most selfish generation of Americans ever. They rode the prosperity wave of the Greatest Generation and squandered their inheritance away. From health care, to jobs, to socio-economic mobility, Gen X-ers and millennials are the first generations to live shorter life spans and make less than their parents. Boomers went to college without debt, bought houses straight out of college at affordable rates, and are now retired. They are living on pensions complete with health care from jobs that enabled them to work while their spouses raised children. They now loot and deny those same pensions for their own children through the ballot box. The living embodiment of Baby Boomer greed currently occupies the oval office. Hopefully, as the baby boomers and their "I got mine, you go kick rocks!" fades out, future generations will be able to repair the mess and make America great for ALL people.

What we have learned is the baby boomer are the generation that had their parents who grew up during the depression and fought a world war then build a period of prosperity. The boomers then took that and refused to pay it forward to their children. They mortgaged their kids future for some small tax cuts. They loaded their kids with debt that they never had to deal with them called them lazy. They want to take away their healthcare guarantees while they live on Medicare paid by their children.

I didn't vote for an example. I'm responsible for my own personal values. I voted for results. We needed jobs. We've got them. Lowest unemployment since '73. We needed a Conservative SCOTUS. We've got it with Gorsuch. And, we will add an additional 2, 3, 4 more by 2020. We needed a World that realizes our Word is to be Respected, Believed. We have that again! We need to halt the unlimited illegal immigration supported by the McConnell/Ryan, Schumer/Pelosi Establishment. We need a Wall, an E-verifiable guest worker program. I'm anxious to vote McConnell out in a Primary to accomplish these anti Chamber of Commerce, Koch Brother positions. I do however admire the Pro-American MAGA example of the President and deeply appreciative of Trump's ability to confront or work with either Party as necessary to defend America, Americans. Plain English, blunt to the point, concise communications have been lacking since Reagan. I thank God the long drought is over with President Trump!

Always remember what the great Winston Churchill one said (paraphrased): You have to have no heart to not be a liberal in your younger years, but you have to have no brain if you are not a conservative when you reach older age. There's much to be learned from this very wise statement. Wisdom always comes with age.

I'm sorry, Associated Press, but you lost all credibility as a pollster in the 2016 presidential election, and I quote: "Clinton leading Trump nationally by a staggering 14 percentage points among likely voters, 51-37%."